Chapter 10 – Human-Faced Bird
Edited and proofread by: aprilmayaugust
Luo Zhen grinned at the figure in the water, no matter what action he made, the blurry figure in the water also followed that action.
The figure’s hair was wet against his face, and there was a shallow crescent-like scar on his smooth forehead exposed by the bangs pulled up, and the scar was close to the hairline, so he couldn’t see it if he didn’t pay attention.
Although it is only a reflection, the facial features can barely be clearly distinguished, no matter how long Luo Zhen looks at it, there is always a little difference between the familiar facial features and the memory of himself, such as the scar on the forehead that should not exist, such as the facial features that are much more immature than the original, such as the thin face shape, and the hair that is still messy even after washing.
It wasn’t his body, at least not his body at the age when he crossed. Luo Zhen can be sure of this.
“Aren’t you going back yet?” Lu Zhan had already dried the water droplets on his body and put the animal skin back on his body, seeing that Luo Zhen was still standing in the water in a daze, he couldn’t help but remind him.
He didn’t go hunting today, he hadn’t eaten anything other than the fruits in the morning, and he had been soaking in the water for most of the day and had begun to get hungry, he originally wanted to go to the big river to catch some fish to eat, but he was worried about Luo Zhen that would have to stay on the shore alone, so he could only give up. The fish meat is very fishy, and there are many tiny bones, Lu Zhan does not like their taste very much.
Luo Zhen came back to his senses, he has now determined that he has crossed, although he is a little depressed that this body may not be his original body, he is powerless to change this established fact, at least the appearance of this body is still seven or eight points like his original self, Luo Zhen can only comfort himself in this way.
The moisture of the cleaned animal skin clothes had not yet dried, and it was a little heavy to carry, Lu Zhan took it and walked towards the tribe with Luo Zhen.
“Roar.”
A huge crash suddenly sounded from the small pool behind them, and the water almost splashed on Luo Zhen as the two had just walked a few steps. Lu Zhan reacted quickly and threw Luo Zhen to the ground, Luo Zhen only felt a huge shadow flying overhead, and it brought a huge wind.
“Human-faced bird.” Lu Zhan lowered his voice and said in Luo Zhen’s ear.
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“Roar.”
The small pool is not deep, and the giant beast that fell into the water jumped up and rushed towards the human-faced bird in the air. The huge wings of the human-faced bird flapped, and the giant bird created a whirlwind. The beast was slapped back to the ground again, and this time the giant beast fell right in front of Luo Zhen who was about to sneak away.
“Heh heh heh.” The human-faced bird’s cry was gloomy and sharp. Its eyesight was very good, and it naturally saw the two humans hiding in the grass, but it obviously didn’t want to give up on the giant beast. Seeing that the two humans weren’t turning into beasts and fleeing, he planned to subdue the giant beast first.
Only then did Luo Zhen see the appearance of the other giant beast clearly. It was a huge golden-brown lion whose fur was scratched by the human-faced bird, and even most of its hair was stained with blood.
There is a complicated beast pattern between the forehead of the giant lion, which is a sign that distinguishes it from those ordinary beast lions who are not able to transform at all, but Luo Zhen will not be able to distinguish the difference between beastmen and ordinary beasts at this time, even if he has seen the people in the Black Panther tribe transform, he hadn’t thought that the giant lion in front of him may be a beastman.
Instead, Lu Zhan next to him saw the identity of the giant lion at a glance, and he pointed to the direction of the tribe and shouted to the giant lion, “Run forward, our tribe is there.”
When the giant lion heard Lu Zhan’s shout, he rolled up without fighting, rolled up a large handful of weeds and soil then threw it into the air with his tail, he turned around and ran in the direction Lu Zhan pointed.
The human-faced bird obviously did not expect the giant lion that was severely injured to have such explosive power, throwing away those weeds and soil that had no offensive power to blind him and finding that the giant lion had left. It was not difficult to catch up at this distance at the speed of the human-faced bird, but there were two more humans here, one of them emitted a smell more fragrant than the giant lion, and the human-faced bird was really reluctant to throw away these two people like this and continue to chase the giant lion.
After weighing its options, the human-faced bird monster screamed, turned around, and pounced toward Luo Zhen and Lu Zhan.
Lu Zhan protected Luo Zhen behind him, a pair of eyes stared at the human-faced bird in the sky, his entire body tense. This time, he did not wait for the giant lion to go far before a pair of slender feet were quickly covered with silver scales, one hand had been transformed into a claw while the other hand had remained in its original state, but the fingernails of the fingers are growing rapidly, almost as long as a finger, the beast ears on his head also emerged, and the momentum of the whole person changed.
“Remember to run to the tribe in a while, the human-faced bird will not enter the beastman tribe alone, and you will be safe when you run into the tribe.” Lu Zhan licked the corners of his lips and did not forget to explain this to Luo Zhen.
The human-faced bird is very powerful, Lu Zhan has never faced the human-faced bird head-on, he doesn’t know if he can handle it, but since he is targeted by the human-faced bird, he can’t retreat, the human-faced bird will not easily give up a prey it fancies.
“Heh-heh.” The curved beak of the human-faced bird opened, revealing a row of white and sharp teeth inside, and a pair of eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the two thin humans on the ground full of determined expressions.
Lu Zhan did not wait for the human-faced bird to pounce, his feet bounced up a little on the ground, his jumping ability was very good, and he jumped directly onto the head of the human-faced bird, but the human-faced bird was fast, it turned over, and suddenly spit out a flame in his mouth.
Lu Zhan couldn’t dodge in midair, but fortunately, he was still wearing animal skins, and the flames passed in front of him, burning a layer of animal hair.
“Heh heh.” The human-faced bird flew high into the air on its back, making an oozing call while circling in the air.
Although it was only a round of competition, one person and one bird did not show their full strength, but the human-faced bird could still feel Lu Zhan’s strength, and it even spat out words, “Hehehe, powerful beastman, eat, eat, hehe.”
Luo Zhen didn’t want to hold Lu Zhan back, he still knew his ability, so as soon as Lu Zhan faced the bird, he quickly got up from the ground and ran in the direction of the tribe.
Thanks to the fact that the Black Panther tribe would come to the river to get water, they had already paved out of a dirt road, even though there were still potholes, at least it was much faster than running in the tall grass.
Although the human-faced bird prefers the taste of Lu Zhan’s body, it also does not want to let Luo Zhen go. Luo Zhen had only run a few hundred meters when suddenly there was a huge wind behind him, and the huge bird crossed the top of Luo Zhen’s head and landed steadily in front of Luo Zhen.
The human-faced bird has dark hair with no luster, except for a discernable human face, a long hair that hangs straight to the chest, its claws are golden yellow, and very sharp, just standing on the ground, and most of its claws are not buried in the dirt. The human-faced bird’s neck is very long, and when looking at people, it likes to tilt its head, it stands upright at a height of more than two meters, and Luo Zhen needs to raise his head if he wants to look at the other.
If he looks at the face alone, the facial features of the human-faced bird are very beautiful, even a little charming, and there are two layers of brightly colored patterns under its eyes, a bit like painted patterns, but Luo Zhen inexplicably feels that it should have grown naturally.
“Heh-heh.” The human-faced bird’s eyebrows curved, and it opened its curved hooked mouth and screeched at Luo Zhen.
Luo Zhen had never seen such a strange and dangerous fierce bird, and it was clear that the expression of the human-faced bird was laughing, but he was covered in sweat, he wanted to escape in a different direction as soon as he could.
He can’t beat the human-faced bird, and being targeted by the human-faced bird meant only a dead end for him. Luo Zhen was well aware of the current situation, but he didn’t want to die, so he had to escape.
“Don’t change direction, just keep running in the direction of the tribe.”
Lu Zhan had already caught up, he crossed past Luo Zhen to meet the human-faced bird. The human-faced bird saw Lu Zhan coming, its wings shook and flew up, and a pair of claws also brought a pile of dirt, spilling on Luo Zhen’s face.
However, at this time, Luo Zhen couldn’t care about this much, and according to Lu Zhan’s words, he ran in the direction of the tribe without looking back.
There was a loud noise behind him, and it was obvious that Lu Zhan had already begun fighting with the human-faced bird.
The human-faced bird has wings and is fast, and it is almost too easy for it to deal with Lu Zhan, whose strength is not as good as itself and can’t fly. But Lu Zhan often goes to deserted islands to find all kinds of big fish to fight, although his strength is not as good as the human-faced bird, he is flexible, and he can drag the human-faced bird into a fight for a while, buying Luo Zhen time to escape.
Even though Luo Zhen had used his best strength to run, his speed was not comparable to that of the beastmen, and only halfway he found that there were many black figures coming from the direction of the tribe, when he looked at them, he found that it was a dozen huge black panthers, and in the middle of the panthers, it was the giant lion that had escaped in advance just now.
Hei Shan naturally saw Luo Zhen so he ran to Luo Zhen and changed back to his human form, “Go back to the tribe and don’t come out, we will rescue A-Zhan.”
After saying that, he kept running, and turned into a panther again as he caught up with his companions in front.
Luo Zhen ran out of breath, but he didn’t dare to stay, so he could only continue to flee in the direction of the tribe.
The strange cry of the human-faced bird behind him seemed to be able to penetrate his eardrums and the roar of the beast came in bursts, with Hei Shan there, Lu Zhan should be fine, right?
That human faced bird sounds so scary! 😱 Thank you the update.
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Does he actually have scales? Or is that just a common mistranslation. I thought he was a half black panther, maybe he got that mixed bloodline going on.
So the one who the human-face bird thought smells good was ML? I thought it would be MC.